Do you ever feel like it's gone from date to job interview? I do. I feel like I'm being interviewed for the position of Wife, and if I answer one question wrong, another guy is going to cross-check me with his Laundry List of requirements, and I'll be Checked Off.

No, you're right, I don't really need one of those male-units but it does get lonely out here sometimes.

The Nietzsche quote: "One seems not to realize that worldview is a confession of character" seems to apply here. Them damn uppity career wimmen!

I guess it shouldn't be a surprise to me that this kinda crapola is back out from the stale meme dustbin; the whole "rise of the conservative movement" thing we've been having to endure fits right in with all this ... all the guys voting Republican and driving H2s and trying desperately to prove that they measure up to their hairy-chested he-man fantasies find nothing quite so terrifying as a woman who just won't fit into their little proscribed categories.

I hate to say it, but I know of a lot of men in L.A. who are the perfect target audience for this kind of tripe...

Oh dear, Catherine, so sorry for violent nasal coffee-shooting reaction. That was never our intent.

It is batshit crazy, though, that this sort of thing is up for debate in our times. Who ever thought, after all, it would be a question, whether women should work or not? And coming from a national, supposedly neutral publication? Horrible, M. Noer!

And yes, Sioban, dating SO can be like a job interview. Either one is too Domestic and not Ambitious enough, or the reverse. And fie on that. Are we not evolved enough to allow for different dynamics than previous generations? And were our parents and their parents so happy after all?